Improvement in flax-breaking machines



J. HAINES am.. KOHLBR.

FLAX BREAKING MACHINE No. 40,621. Patented Nov'. 1'7, 1868.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

J ACOB HANES AND LUKAS KOHLER, OF MILLERSBURG, INDIANA.v

IMPROVEMENT IN FLAX-BREAKING MACHINES.

Specilieation forming part of Letters Patent No. 40, 621, ydatedNovember lf2', 1863.

To all ich/omit may concern:

3e it known that we, .Moon Hanns and Lunas Komaan., of lllillersburg, inthe county ot' Elkhart and State of Indiana, have invented a new andImproved Flax-Brake; and we do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the saine, reference being had 'tothe accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, inwhich- Figure l is a side sectional View of our invention, taken'in theline x x, Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a plan er top View of the same Similar lettersof reference'ilnlieate corresponding parts in the two figures.

This invention consists in the employment or use of threeiluted-rollers, one of which has its shaft fitted in permanent orstationary bearings, the shafts of the other two being fitted in slidingbearings arranged with springs and lset-screws in such a manner as tocause the rollers to operate in the most efficient manner in breakingthe flax. y

The invention also consists in a novel manner of arranging or placingthe sliding bearings in the frame ot' the machine, and in theemploynient or use of two feed-boardsarranged relatively with the lowerroller in such a manner as to admit of theilaxbeing fed into the machineat either ot' two opposite sides.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully Vunderstand and constructour invention, we

will proceed to describe it.

The irai-ne of the machine is composed of two vertical sides, A A,connected at a suita# ble distance apart by cross-pieces a, and B C Care three iluted rollers which are placed horizontallyin the frame. Theshaft I) of the roller B has its bearings in the sides A of the i'rame,said bearings being permanent or fixed. lhe rollers C C have theirshafts c cin a horizontal plane above the roller B, and at oppositesides of a vertical line passing through its center, as shown clearly inFig. 1. The rollers O O' both gear into the roller B, and the shaftschave their bearings in slides D, which are fitted in grooves d made inthe inner surl'aces of the sides A A in a direction radial with theroller l, as shown in Fig. 1. The bearings l) of cach roller C C areconnected by a crossbar, E, which bear against set-screws f', the latterpassing through bars F, the ends et' which are attached to removableslides G,

' ble metal.

iitted in the grooves d. The slides G are prevented from rising. in thegrooves (l by means of caps or strips f f, which are screwed one on thetop of each side A. y

From the above description it will be seen that the two rollers C O'maybe removed from the frame at any time 4by detaehing the caps f,withdrawing the slides G and bars F, and therewith drawing the bars E,having the bearings D and rollers O C attached to them.

H H are two inclined feed-boards, which are fitted between the sidesA Aat opposite sides ot' the roller I5, the upper ends of the i'cedboardsbeing on a level with the shaft?) of the roller B, as shown in Fig. 1.rlhese 'lluted rollersl and erossbars may be either of wood or metal.rFlic bearings I) may be oi' any suitaot' metal. l The operation is asfollows: The roller lil may be turned either byI hand or other po\\'er,and the i'lax fed to the rollers on either feed board H, according tothe direction in which t-he roller 3 is turned. The rollers O O may beadjusted nearer to or farther from the roller B, according to theamoiint ot' iiax passing be tween the rollers, by adjust-ing theset-screw.` c, which Aserve as bearings for the bars E, the latter, aswell as the bars F, having a certain degree of elasticity to admit ofthe rollers C C yielding to conform to the inequalities ol the thicknessof the 'layer of ilax passing between them and roller l5. In Fig. l thellax is shown, passing between the rollers, in red, and the direction inwhich the rollers rotate is indicated b-y the arrows upon them. .3y thisarrangement flax may be ope ated upon rapidly and in the most e'licient:manner to separate the woody substance from the fiber. Having thusdescribed our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure bvlietters Patent, is

The combination of the iluled roller (l C', elastic bars E F, slides D,set -screws c c, -and ieed-boards ll ll, all arranged to operate as`andior the purpose herein set forth.

JACOB HANES. LUKAS KOHLER. VVt-neSSes:

HENRY DroK, ,WEsLEr .HAGAnr PETER BEHLER.

The shal'ts ot' the rollers are also

